Quote Originally Posted by Hursticon View Post
I built this Beast for my 30th Birthday gift to myself...




The aim was to build a "Mid-Spec" machine that'd last the next 5 years at least, being able to handle Carmageddon: Reincarnation & Doom(4) , but also so I could simply play games at all as my outgoing PC had just been thoroughly used and had met the end of its life (Being built in mid '08).

It'll also allow me to get better accustomed with a modern Windows environment, as I've been using XP since, oooooooh... '02?

I should also be able to do what I do with PCs a little quicker too, hopefully being able to now rip my Cartoon DVD collection as easily as my CD collection!
Should go good man.

I recently updated my base computer I last upgraded back in 2009 with the following:

Asrock fatality professional
Intel xeon 1231v3
nzxt kraken x31
2x8gb Kingston fury red 1866.
Gigabyte ati 280.

I also got that oem win8.1 as well. You should do the registry mod to get rid of that lock screen that is total not needed, only gets in the way, of desktop use. Goes straight to login screen instead.

Next upgrade in the short term is probably an nvidia 970 with a 4k ~28" screen. Still using my 24" dell I bought back in 2008. But me wanting to upgrade my car to flexfuel will probably back burner that. lol.

As for games, the only one I'm looking forward to is fallout 4.